[clue-tech] command line mail fetcher

[Peter H.]

Angelo Bertolli <angelo at freeshell.org> wrote:
> Timothy Klein wrote:
> > On 22 Apr 2005, at 9:48 PM, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> >> Is there any command-line command which will allow me to retrieve
> >> mail from pop and dump it into an mbox?  I thought fetchmail would do
> >> this, but as it turns out it's really a way to forward mail by SMTP.
> >> I want something that would basically work like a regular mail agent
> >> like mozilla to retrieve pop mail, only that can be run from the
> >> command line so I can have it run in the background every so often.
> >
> > I'm confused.  The only reason fetchmail would not be able to do what
> > you want is if you don't have any kind of mail server on the machine
> > in question.  Is that the case?
>
> I am only a user on the system and cannot configure the mail server to
> accept the domain name.  In particular, I want to pop my gmail email
> over to an mbox on a UNIX server.
>
> Angelo

I am currently doing exactly what you describe with fetchmail. You can also 
forward gmail to ANY account..//Peter





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